The Life of Will Grohmann

Robert Motherwell

The mailing label pasted in the lower centre of the collage is addressed to Motherwell from an unidentified person named Grohmann in Munich. This apparently led Motherwell to think of Will Grohmann (1887-1968), a German art historian and critic who wrote books on Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and German Expressionism, and who was a staunch defender of abstraction and internationalism in art.

Robert Motherwell The Life of Will Grohmann acrylic and collage element on canvas laid down on board signed original
Artist
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Title
The Life of Will Grohmann
Medium
Acrylic and collage element on canvas laid down on board
Date
1977
Inscriptions
Signed 'R. Motherwell 23 March 77' upper left
Size
48 x 36 in. : 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Im Erker, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Private Collection, Switzerland by 1979; J. Koch, Munich, Germany
Exhibited
'Bilanz', 15th June - 15th September 1979, Galerie Im Erker, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Literature
Flam, J., Rogers, K., Clifford, T., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, Vol.3, p.279, C594
Registration
Artist's studio number C77-924
Reference
CC15-18
Status
Available

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